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Geotimes December 2005 Kathryn Hansen |
Victory for Evolution in Dover A Pennsylvania judge ruled that the Dover Area School District's science curriculum, which required the presentation of intelligent design -- a religious theory -- as an alternative to evolution, is unconstitutional. |
Geotimes February 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Victory for Evolution in Dover A Pennsylvania judge ruled that the Dover School District's science curriculum, which required the presentation of intelligent design (ID) as an alternative to evolution, is unconstitutional. Just two weeks after the decision, schoolboard members voted to remove ID from its curricula. |
Geotimes October 2005 Megan Sever |
Evolution Battles Continue The battle over the teaching of evolution in public schools in the United States reached a fervor this week, as a number of prominent scientists testified in an ongoing court trial that pits evolution against intelligent design. |
Geotimes March 2005 Megan Sever |
Evolution Battles Rage School districts in Pennsylvania and Georgia are challenging evolution theory in the classroom, and now the courtroom. |
Geotimes November 2004 Megan Sever |
More Challeneges to Evolution In three states this week, battles rage on about the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution in public schools. |
Geotimes April 2005 Linda Rowan |
Creationism: Back in Kansas Again Unfortunately, a brief history of the creationism movement over the past 80 years suggests that the debate has not been resolved, but rather the movements in Kansas and elsewhere are subtly changing tactics to try to gain the same objective. |
Scientific American December 2005 Steve Mirsky |
The Trials of Life Because eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, we have to talk about intelligent design again. |
Geotimes September 2005 Nisbet & Nisbet |
Evolution & Intelligent Design: Understanding Public Opinion Tensions in American society over religious and scientific accounts of human origins are centuries old, and the divide between the two contending worldviews continues today as part of an escalating political conflict over science education. |
Wired October 2004 Evan Ratliff |
The Crusade Against Evolution In the beginning there was Darwin. And then there was intelligent design. How the next generation of "creation science" is invading America's classrooms. |
Salon.com February 28, 2001 Larry Arnhart |
Assault on evolution The religious right takes its best scientific shot at Darwin with "intelligent design" theory... |
T.H.E. Journal August 2007 Christina C. Schaller |
Let Academic Freedom Ring Unless we liberate science from political and religious forces, our students don't stand a chance in the global workforce. |
Wired December 2004 |
Rants + Raves Letters to the editor: Darwin vs. intelligent design... The Long Tail... Response to climate change... etc. |
Reason May 2006 Ronald Bailey |
Separate But Equal? Can science tell us anything about religion? |
Geotimes September 2003 David Applegate |
Opposition to Evolution Takes Many Forms A 1987 Supreme Court decision forced evolution opponents to reassess their approach and seek alternative strategies that would not run afoul of the constitutional wall of separation between church and state. In the intervening years, two such strategies have emerged. |
Geotimes September 2003 Megan Sever |
Textbook battle over evolution Now that the Texas board is considering 11 biology and science textbooks for adoption and use in its 2004-2005 school year, the evolution debate has once again erupted in Texas and around the country. |
Geotimes November 2005 Kathryn Hansen |
Kansas Vote Challenges Evolution The Kansas State Board of Education voted yesterday to approve science education standards that treat evolution with skepticism. Scientists say that the standards open the door for nonscientific beliefs such as intelligent design to enter science classrooms across the state. |
Reason July 2008 Ronald Bailey |
Flunk This Movie! Ben Stein's new anti-evolution propaganda film, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, is all worldview and no evidence. It gives no scientific evidence against biological evolution nor none for intelligent design. |
Reason November 2005 Chris Lehmann |
Inherit the Baloney In Monkey Business: The True Story of the Scopes Trial, by Marvin Olasky and John Perry, creationists try to settle a score with Darwin. |
Geotimes July 2005 Mark A. Wilson |
Geomedia Books: Seeing Landscapes from Above... Creationism's Trojan Horse... DVDs: Hubble's Anniversary... On the Shelf: Mars and Beyond... etc. |
Geotimes March 2006 Bergstrom & Lipsitch |
Evolution Lessons From Infectious Diseases Even though the critics of evolutionary biology rarely dispute examples of microbial evolution on human timescales, the public appears largely unaware of the importance and success of evolutionary biology in dealing with human disease. |
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2005 Humphrey Taylor |
Back Page: Evolution? It's Not Right! The Religious Right is likely to influence the future of medicine, healthcare, and medical research. |
Geotimes September 2003 Megan Sever |
Evolution debate continues in Texas At a public hearing on Wednesday, people on both sides of the ongoing evolution debate duked it out over how the topic should be covered in Texas high school biology textbooks. |
Geotimes September 2005 Lee J. Suttner |
Believing vs. Knowing: Faith's Role in the Evolution Debate Belief in evolution does not preclude belief in God. But belief is the key word. Fully understanding the concept of belief is fundamental to arguments for keeping creationism and its clever smokescreen, intelligent design, out of the science classrooms of all of our schools, not just the public ones. |
T.H.E. Journal July 2004 Richter & Steele |
Data-Driven Decision-Making: Linking Data Collection & Professional Learning at the Britton-Hecla SD This example from the Britton-Hecla School District may serve as a model for other districts to consider in their efforts to leverage the use of data and impact the use of technology for improved teaching and learning. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2001 Mark Gura |
East Harlem's Winning School Technology Formula Tech-hungry students, generous corporate partners, central support and the determination to succeed... |